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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
Inventing new tools for science and society
Finding clean, sustainable solutions for the world’s energy challenges
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off.
A bump in the LHC data has physicists electrified…but what does it mean?
CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.
The center of our galaxy is a busy place. But it might be one of the best sites to hunt for dark matter.
Working together, researchers at SLAC and Stanford expand our knowledge of materials, molecules and the universe.
The CMS and ATLAS experiments combined forces to more precisely measure properties of the Higgs boson.
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Understanding Motions of Thin Layers May Help Design Solar Cells, Electronics and Catalysts of the Future
The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Dark matter experiments are becoming so sensitive, even the ghostliest of particles will soon get in the way.
Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime?